002/19-09-2007-ECCC-OCIJ ЮŲŠ / No: D427 brought from Phnom Penh implicating them.2677 [REDACTED], himself made his own reports and brought them back with him to the General Staff in Phnom Penh.2678 Executions and Disappearances 616. The leadership of Au Kanseng did not have the authority to make the decision to execute a prisoner2679. The date the prisoner was taken to be executed was recorded and daily statistics reports were sent to the Division.2680 617. From December 1976, Saroeun began reporting the capture of “Yuon” by units of Division 801,2681 as did Northeast Zone Secretary Vy.2682 618. A telegram dated 15 June 1977 addressed by Vy alias Um Neng, in his capacity as Secretary of the Northeast Zone, to "Respected Brother" and copied inter alia to Nuon Chea and Ieng Sary reports the arrest of 209 Vietnamese Jarai by Division 801: “… on this 14 June, while on patrol, the production unit of 801 stationed in 107 captured 209 Yuon troops, among whom there were nine women, in the vicinity of Au L’ik, at a distance of 4 kilometres south of Route 19 [?] . All of them are of Jarai nationality and speak Khmer with an accent. They have been transferred to holding ... According to the proposal of the 801 production unit, a request was made for a decision for the highest level straightaway. I awaited the responses before being being agreeable to such as decision”.2683 619. Sau Saroeun called [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] for a meeting where, according to the latter, they were told to “sort out those Jarai” ... the term ‘sort out’ [literally, to sort out or resolve] meant to ‘kill and get rid of’”.2684 620. According to [REDACTED] “the Jarai were captured and brought in from the Vietnamese border because the Vietnamese had driven these Jarai from the Vietnamese territory”.2685 [REDACTED] further explains that they were charged with being Khieu-Ky soldiers2686 and were called the “ethnic FULRO”.2687 621. The execution of the Jarai people followed. Men, woman and children2688 were brought to Au kanseng Security Centre 2689 until they were tied in line and taken away by truck 2690 by a combination of forces, including a security unit from the sector, troops of artillery Battalion 8032691 and personnel of Au Kanseng itself,2692 to be killed in three B-52 bomb carters less than a kilometre away from the prison.2693 Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, National Road 4, Choam Chao, Dangkao Phnom Penh Mailing address: P.O. Box 71, Phnom Penh; Tel: +855(0)23 218914 Fax: +855(0) 23 218941. 157

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